The Coward Brothers

In an often quoted line from the classic John Ford western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, a reporter, confronted with evidence that contradicts the accepted story of a famous and respected man, says, "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." This same thought could also apply to the Coward Brothers, who are either a pair of itinerant musicians with a remarkable if improbably colorful backstory, or two celebrated songwriters with an on-and-off collaboration spanning several decades. Either way, the Coward Brothers have issued a small but intriguing body of work that ...